New Health Leadership Centre targets effective capacity building for NHS chiefs
Published 6 June 2008
The opening of the Health Leadership Centre. Speakers at the launch included Professor Iain Densten, Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre and Ian Cumming, CEO of North Lancashire Teaching PCT.
Dr Richard Smith, Director of the Ovations/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, was the guest speaker at the opening hosted by the Lancaster Leadership Centre Director Professor Iain Densten. Dr Smith presented a stimulating view of leadership in the context of the NHS (you can watch Dr Smith's keynote speech in the video below).
Dr Richard Smith, Director of Ovations and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and former editor of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) was keynote speaker at the centre launch and presented a stimulating view of leadership in the NHS.
It will research and evaluate best practice leadership development for the health sector, run a series of leadership development workshops for senior managers, and act as a broker of leadership development advice and development.
“There is a need within the NHS to develop managers and leaders and provide a talent pool to improve succession planning in the sector,” he said.
“Organisations within the health sector are going through a period of change and it is the leaders themselves who can ensure that this change moves from a bureaucratic to a capable environment.”
The Health Leadership Centre is being supported by 14 affiliate NHS Trusts within the North West, and is already working in partnership with these organisations on leadership impact developments and research activities.
HLC affiliate partners
Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust • Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust • East Lancashire Primary Care Trust • Blackpool Primary Care Trust • Lancashire Care NHS Trust • Calderstones NHS Trust • North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust • Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust • North Lancashire Teaching Primary Care Trust • Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust • North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust • Cumbria Primary Care Trust • the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
Related links
- The Health Leadership Centre (Lancaster University Management School)
- Lancaster Leadership Centre (Lancaster University Management School)
- Centre for Medical Education (Lancaster University)
